Oh my gah, I'm so excited! I won a regional pizza contest sponsored by Bolla Wines of Italy last month. It was my first entry into a real recipe competition, and I took first place! That is, first out of the 8 western states.
Now comes the big stuff, though. Bolla Wines is sending one grand prize winner to either Naples, Italy or Paris, France to tour Bolla's winery and attend the International Pizza Championship! Thirty percent (30%) of the judging will be based on internet voting. This is where I need your help.
I feel like such a fucking shill doing this, but seriously, people. A free trip to Europe? Please, please help me! I'll be your best friend! All you have to do is go to the Bolla Wines website (click the hotlink) and enter your birthdate (if you're under 21, you'll have to just cheer for me instead). Then select my pizza with a 4-pizza rating! You only have until October 15, so you should do it now before you forget. Again, bend me over and call me Sally, I feel like such a whore right now. But it's a free trip to Europe. A FREE TRIP TO EUROPE.
My pizza is chanterelle with arugula-pumpkin seed pesto and chevre. Tomorrow or this weekend I'll make it and post it so you can see how yummeh it is. Everyone who reads my blog knows this is a typical flavor profile for me (I'da used nettle pesto if it weren't so difficult for the average household to procure), and I'm staying true to the gizzame by entering this recipe. I'm so flattered to have been selected.
My pizza represents the Pacific Northwest perfectly. The only thing that could make it any more PNW is if there were salmon, huckleberries and hazelnuts on it. Which everyone knows is a fucking nasty pizza.
Okay, I'll stop now. I already need to go shower because I feel so dirty groveling like this, like a common coke whore, but I swear I will wisdom-rock your bonch so hard you'll forget who's on the penny if you vote for me.
Thank you! I love you!
Thursday, October 02, 2008
Help me win a trip to Europe!
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Done, I visit via Syd's.
Good Luck!
I got your back. Voting now.
That's really exciting--I hope you win! You've got my vote :-)
Done! Good luck! I'm rooting for you!
I'd rather vote for you than those other people...
I'm voting for you! Good luck!
Can we vote more than once?
CONGRATS! That's amazing!
Go Heather! Done and dusted as we say!
Congratulations!!!! Hey that's great news :D :D! You must be like floating in a cloud ;D
I'm voting for you, no worries and as soon as you post about it with pictures and so, I'll mention it in a future post in my blog so that you get more traffic and votes! Anything for a friend :D.
Would love to see your face... too bad Paris or Napoles are a bit far from Barcelona ;D
If you come to Europe you are making me that pizza.
You got my vote.
Although my favorite pizza involves my wife's tomato sauce and my pepperone. I can and I dry cure. I also do scratch crust.
http://blog.charcuteire.com/2008/02/03/pizza.aspx
Yay Heather!!! I voted...Can we vote again and again???
Good luck Heather!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Yeah. I never win any contests and win this on your first try! Im heading over to vote now.If I were rich I would take over with us to Sweden this summer .
Thanks, you guys! I'll mention you in my acceptance speech. Joking, it's really up to the judges, but hopefully the judges will be swayed by all the traffic I can bring to their website.
ntsc - it's a good thing you didn't enter the contest.
Mosby - bitch this is MY corner and you better get to steppin' before I cut you. (did that sound like something a ho would say?)
Brittany - I don't mind a little sunny weather up my ass, but you prolly just like mine 'cuz you're in Seattle. Pacific Northwest, baby! What WHAT?
DONE. as Gordon Ramsay would say.
Can i just say as well, I'm an adventurous eater, and yours is the only pizza on that list I'd go near!
It looks nom-able!
Done! I hope you get it, yours was the most innovative!
Gotta vote for a fellow NW gal! Good luck!
You got my pizza slices. Good luck.
Well I gave you four slices - good luck. I also want to thank you for drawing my attention to the phrase 'I will wisdom-rock your bonch so hard you'll forget who's on the penny '
I'm not anonymous - I'm me! (see above)
Ok you got my vote. The pizza sounds frikin amazing, by the way. Great. Now I'm hungry for pizza.
I voted AND gave you mention in today's post. Just remember, when you get to Italy BEWARE of the complimentary Pantene.
Did I mention that I speak Italian, and am an excellent guide?
Dictum, Factum.
I voted for the both of us.
I've been making beer!
By the both of us I ment Christ and myself, I thought I was logged into the wedding blog account, and not my own. Just so you didn't think that I thought I was two people.
And by Christ I meant Christy, and by ment I meant meant.
I'm voting for you on the strict condition that if you win said trip, you come and show your face here in the UK. I might even buy you a drink.
Oh and, er, yeah. Good stuff, well done, tally ho, and all that. ;-)
... OK, have voted. And even if it wasn't you I'd have voted for yours - the corn, seafood & peach pizzas tick 3 of my "most hated" boxes!
ok, i'm off doing it right now. that's awesome. you're not a shill(????), you're just cheap, let's be honest. times are tough right now. i have to go to england twice a year to visit family (and my new grandson in london, bitches!), which, i'm not complaining about, but if i could win a free trip even there, I would. it's so damn expensive.
good for you. you deserve it.
oh and i was laughing so hard at your comment on peters latest post re: the millionare and pussy jokes. you go girl - get his money AND his business!!!!
Girlfriend, I so helped you out, you owe me...actually if you could check out my awesome pizza I made inspired from my own trip to Istanbul, well that would be so cool!
Love your attitude,what are friends for?
Thanks, everyone! Now, hopefully the judges will see that I am clearly the one who deserves a trip to Europe.
Jeremy - You didn't include a link, so I can't see your pizza!
With groveling like that I couldn't resist! ya vote!
You'd only be a shill if your recipe sucked, but it was the best looking one of the bunch:-) You have my 4 slice vote:-)
Voted. Now what's all this about wisdom rocking my something or other?
My pizza or pide is at www.stirthepots.com
Done!
Just bring me back some chocolates. :-)
Done, babe. :)
Heather, you SO rock! Congrats! My vote is in.
Best of luck Heather! I am running over to vote for you RIGHT NOW!!!
i'm voting right now! arugula pumpkin pesto sounds amazing!!
You got my vote...got here from Nuria's. All the very best!!! Cheers Deeba
I voted and wish you the best!!
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